Over 1500 guests — which included foreign ambassadors, national and provincial ministers, members of the parliament — were present in the inauguration ceremony.

According to the government radio, the project’s technical advisor Sabir Khan Sadozai said that the 18.5 kilometers long track of the project has been completed at a cost of over Rs. 28 billion.

Thirty-five buses will run on the track and approximately 95,000 people will travel by these buses daily, Sadozai said.

He mentioned that the escalators, lifts, generators, expansion joints and launching pads of the project were imported from Europe.

Multan, is the third city of Punjab that have metro bus to facilitate the commuters. Earlier, two bus projects were launched in Lahore and twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad.

It is pertinent to mention here that the people in other Pakistani cities including the largest city of Karachi still deprived of the state of art transport projects and commuting in miserable conditions at the hands of private transporters.